How Does Your Stud Muffin...err...Boyfriend Introduce You?

You and your boyfriend may have a dozen nicknames for each other in private (Big Poppa, anyone?), but what does he call you in public—to his friends, colleagues and family? And what does it all mean?

Enrique Iglesias recently told Parade that he’s called longtime girlfriend, Anna Kournikova, his “wife” before. He even referred to her as "my girl" in the interview, saying, “It was just meant to be sweet in the moment. I honestly didn’t mean to confuse people. I thought it’d be easier for the audience to understand than if I said “my girl.””

It just got me thinking about my own relationship and the way J introduces me (behind closed doors I’m “babe” and “baby”). Usually it’s just as his girlfriend (although I keep insisting on “hot piece of ass”), but he even stepped out of character one night last month. At a work event, he introduced me to a pretty important client as his “other half”. Once we explained that I was not, in fact, his wife, I realized how sweet it actually was to refer to me so adoringly.

But what does it mean when Enrique slips and calls Anna his wife? And what did J mean by calling me his other half? Maybe it’s nothing to read into too deeply. J told me that that’s what he actually thinks of me (plus, things are getting pretty serious), and perhaps Enrique was just feeling especially attached to Anna the day he called her his wife. And Enrique reportedly isn’t a fan of marriage, so maybe this is the next best thing in commitment-speak: referring to Anna as his serious partner. Or maybe there are some hidden messages stemming from the subconscious that I need to dissect for hours sigh.

What does your boyfriend introduce you as? And what do you introduce him as? Do you think there’s a deeper message behind these names we attach to one another? But what I really want to know is: What did J mean when he called me his other half? :)